Best site or program to know exactly how i should run this or that game?

[Skelevra]

like title said, i want to know a site or free program that suggest me exactly how should i run a specific game with my current hardware setup.
Thank you in advance

[Alice Liddell]

Trial and error or get to know your own rig.

[Monk]

If you use an nvidia gpu, you could use the app to decide settings, though, I highly recommend trial and error to dial in an experience YOU find enjoyable given some prefer to give up resoloution or fidelity fir higher fps while others prefer a lower fps but better clarity, there really us no one size fits all approach.

Even if you are running 4090/5090 level hardware, you will find people still run stuff different to one another.

[A&A]

The Nvidia GeForce experience (or whatever it's called now) has such a thing, but it's unreliable.
There will certainly be tons of "optimized settings for 'n' game" results that compare maxed and "optimized" settings in terms of quality and FPS.
It's also no good if your GPU can't handle those graphics in the first place.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just learn what the settings do, it's really that simple.
Then set the game to native res + refresh rate + Ultra preset, then tweak some of the individual settings down; while leaving things like Textures on Ultra. Test the changes in-game or via in-game benchmark if available. If you play the game and the FPS gets too low in certain areas you can't test in earlier (like say a big dense town for example) then re-adjust if needed.

[¤☣wing☢zeяo☣¤™]

Best program is Steam, turn on the FPS counter, adjust settings till you're happy with the results.

[Ocelote.12]

Originally posted by ¤☣wing☢zeяo☣¤™:

Best program is Steam, turn on the FPS counter, adjust settings till you're happy with the results.

If you have GeForce, then software like MSI Afterburner+RTSS is even better — it can show not only the fps, but also (in percentage) the load of CPU cores and GPU, and used VRAM and RAM. So you can see what is bottlenecking you. Also it can display the temperature of CPU and GPU.

[¤☣wing☢zeяo☣¤™]

Originally posted by Ocelote.12:

Originally posted by ¤☣wing☢zeяo☣¤™:

Best program is Steam, turn on the FPS counter, adjust settings till you're happy with the results.

If you have GeForce, then software like MSI Afterburner+RTSS is even better — it can show not only the fps, but also (in percentage) the load of CPU cores and GPU, and used VRAM and RAM. So you can see what is bottlenecking you. Also it can display the temperature of CPU and GPU.

You can just open task manager and resource monitor built in to Windows and see the same stats if you need to, Afterburner is cool though but if I want/need in depth results I use HW Monitor.

[Skelevra]

and what's the acceptable amount of fps for games like kcd 2 or assassin creed shadow? 60? 50? 80?

[Electric Cupcake]

"Best" is pretty relative and subjective.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home is a nice resource for finding necessary patches or source ports or system tweaks.

And https://www.protondb.com/ of course.

[76561199389059995]

Originally posted by Skelevra:

like title said, i want to know a site or free program that suggest me exactly how should i run a specific game with my current hardware setup.
Thank you in advance

IDK what are your purposes for FPS Benchmarks in-game or are you going to rate your hardware ? Hmm there were some sites with really good game tests such as guru3d for latest AAA Titles or something like CPUZ software, or hardware benchmarks from Techpowerup (with charts) also other site like Tom's Hardware, for more informations like tips and tricks TechSpot - Australia tech news site (this place got some benchmark tools or other tools), and the list go on.

Originally posted by Skelevra:

and what's the acceptable amount of fps for games like kcd 2 or assassin creed shadow? 60? 50? 80?

IDK what is your meaning about the acceptable amount of fps for games? People always look at average FPS or 1% numbers.
Happy research

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

"Best" is pretty relative and subjective.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home is a nice resource for finding necessary patches or source ports or system tweaks.

And https://www.protondb.com/ of course.

Looking over what a bloody mess the Serpent Riders trilogy is, as much as I'm annoyed by Bethesda's shenanigans with Doom and Quake 1, I really hope they let Nightdive fix and update Heretic, Hexen, Hexen 2 and Heretic 2 and compile all the expansion packs.

https://www.nzdoom.net/showthread.php?tid=2 is great, but it would be nice if there was a script or guide for users to join the commercial .wads themselves, instead of registering and DMing them for a semi-legal download of the combined megawad.

[Monk]

Originally posted by Skelevra:

and what's the acceptable amount of fps for games like kcd 2 or assassin creed shadow? 60? 50? 80?

That's entirely subjective, for me I like 90 to be my minimum but I aim for 120 locked, others are happy with 30 or 60, some want 240,onky you can answer your question.

[C1REX]

Originally posted by Skelevra:

and what's the acceptable amount of fps for games like kcd 2 or assassin creed shadow? 60? 50? 80?

This is entirely up to you.
60 is considered industry standard but many games on ps5 run at 30fps and people play them. I think AC on base ps5 runs at 30fps

If you play on a mouse and keyboard you need more fps to have a similar smoothness feeling comparing to a controller.
So 50-60 is my personal minimum on a controller and about 90-120fps with a m&k.

[Rod]

Originally posted by Skelevra:

and what's the acceptable amount of fps for games like kcd 2 or assassin creed shadow? 60? 50? 80?

60 as they are very demanding i dont reccomend varied framerates and to get a solid 120 you need to have 3 generations of hardware ahead of the games birth date.


Or play on low you could do that too.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Originally posted by Skelevra:

and what's the acceptable amount of fps for games like kcd 2 or assassin creed shadow? 60? 50? 80?

For most PC gamers, the minimum target is 60fps, though a bit of varrience around that typically dont matter much. For consoles many devs will target 30, so that is playable, but noticably slower than 60. 45FPS can be a great middle ground, specially for mobile PC's like the Steam Deck, allowing most of the responsiveness of 60FPS but with a quarter less on power/hw draw.

Many people with high refresh screens get a bit hooked on how much faster they feel, they can struggle with games for a bit if lower than 120fps, though if they just push through they adapt back to 60fps easily in most cases.

Some (like myself) dont have issue switching between them. I run 1440p/165Hz at the desk, but 4k/60Hz on the couch.